‘Daily Voting News’ For December 24, 2005

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Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

There is not much in the way of new news today. I guess this is to be expected. Have a great Christmas. …

  • CA: State threatens to pull plug on vote machine firm. Company ordered to correct glitches or lose certification. (ES&S) LINK
  • CA: California Activists Call the Cops on Diebold LINK
  • CA: CA Test Stalled As Diebold Certification Derails LINK
  • CO: Boulder County – Vote centers coming? LINK
  • GA: Editorial – New voter ID proposal worth consideration LINK
  • IN: South Bend County – County buys voting machines (ES&S M-100 and AutoMark) LINK
  • MS: Leflore County – Leflore County receives new touch-screen voting machines (Diebold TSx) LINK
  • MS: Leflore County – New in town LINK
  • NC: NCACC asks Easley for help on voting woes LINK
  • NC: Craven County – Diebold decision leaves one company to provide compliant voting machines LINK
  • NM: Voters Seek Order Barring Touchscreen Purchase LINK
  • PA: Bucks County – New voting machine possibilities checked out at courthouse demo LINK
  • WV: Wood County – Christmas gift: County receives voting machines LINK
  • **”Daily Voting News” is meant as a comprehensive listing of reports each day concerning issues related to election and voting news around the country regardless of quality or political slant. Therefore, items listed in “Daily Voting News” may not reflect the opinions of VotersUnite.Org or BradBlog.Com**

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      Doug Eldritch said on 12/24/2005 @ 4:39pm PT: [Permalink]

      This is the most important part of the news:

      "GAO also found that some vendors had such poor security, access to one machine allowed access to large networks of machines in operation during elections."

      My bet is this affects both Diebold & Sequoia. If Black Box Voting or someone can hack the machines to prove you can control an entire cluster of election machines, as the GAO says, then these will be immediately de-certified and brought into court!

      Just think of the implications: If its proven these machines have a backdoor that can control all the machines at once, NO ONE will want them.

      It will also prove that it was used in previous elections (2004 and so on ring a bell) and smack the movement upside the head.

      I request that such a testing and hacking is done & performed. It should be performed right here in California, or Ohio, on just normal machines to show that the vendors were lying.

      By the way- this group of neocons whos really behind the voting machine bullshit, are a bunch of dual-loyalties liberals. (Try wall street bankers..)

      Doug E.

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      templedog said on 12/24/2005 @ 8:30pm PT: [Permalink]

      who ever that is behind it doesn’t have to be liberal or cons….I’d do it for only a few hundred bucks. It is that simple. Some regular joe can do this, it’s not that big of deal. It obviously favored the neocons, so…..

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